666.667 Club
666,667 Club is the fifth studio album by the French rock band Noir Désir. The 1996 released album is distinguished in that it is quieter than its predecessor, with the emphasis was mainly on the texts. Here, some pieces are very intimate, while others respond primarily political and social issues. The album is considered the biggest success of the group and was awarded double platinum in France.
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Formation
The album was produced by Ted Niceley Noir Désir and and recorded by Andy Baker in August 1996 in the Studio du Manoir in the Landes department. During the preparations for the album bassist Frédéric Vidalenc left the band because he did not have the sufficient motivation for further touring and wanted to devote himself entirely to the sport of sailing. Shortly before the beginning of the studio recordings he was replaced by Jean -Paul Roy, who had up to this point of the tour technicians of the group. Nevertheless, Frédéric Vidalenc has en attandant played the bass for the song composed by him Settembre.
The album's title is derived from a competition among members of the group. When they wanted to find out by means of an electronic metronome, who can play the fastest of them on a piano keyboard, all reached the value of 666, from which the idea for the 666 Club gave. The 667 was added so that the album is not directly associated with the number of the beast. The album is noticeably quieter than Trostaky what attendant especially in the songs à ton étoile, Ernestine, Septembre, en, and à la longue is clear. Serge Teyssot - Gay said on this subject:
"On a joué tellement à fond au cours des dernières années qu'il faut inventer maintenant quelque chose d' autre [ ... ] Le recours systématique à la rage et au volume sonore à rien ne mènerait. "
"We have our style in recent years so exhausted that it is time now to invent something new [ ... ] The retreat to anger and volume would lead nowhere. "
Furthermore, Bertrand Cantat had to be restricted to lower sound levels after his surgery on the vocal cords. Songs like fin de siècle, Un jour en France, Comme elle vient and L'Homme pressé are still relatively high.
The album is dedicated, much more clearly than its predecessors, many political and social issues. Fin de siècle is a cynical statement with the twentieth century, Un Jour en France refers to the rise of right-wing politics in France, a subject that was already picked up on the previous album with the song Here it comes slowly. Les Persiennes deals with veiled by Middle-Eastern tradition women and even À ton étoile contains an allusion to the Subcomandante Marcos. L' homme pressé, caricatured the typical careerists who gives everything to get money and power. The end of the song ( "love, love, love, dit- on en Amérique; Lioubov en Russie soviétique; amour aux quatre coins de France " ) is the refrain of the song Love, Lioubov, amour the children's choir Les Poppys.
The Hungarian violinist Félix Lajkó participated in the recordings of the songs and Ernestine Septembre, en attendant in part, while the multi-instrumentalist Akosh Szelevényi, also from Hungary, in the songs of Les Persiennes and 666,667 club played along. The Hidden Track Song for JLP is a tribute to Jeffrey Lee Pierce, the lead singer of the band The Gun Club, who died in 1996.